PLA
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The acronym PLA may mean:
- Participatory Learning and Action, an approach used in international development
- People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China, the world's largest military.
- Palestine Liberation Army
- Phone Losers of America, the computer and telephone hacking group
- Port of London Authority
- Prior Learning Assessment in the field of education and articulation.
- Programmable Logic Array
- Product licensing application, an application to the Food and Drug Administration to get approval of a biologic product
- Public Library Association, a division of the American Library Association
- Polylactic acid, a biopolymer made from natural sugar sources, which can be used as a substitute for petroleum-based polymers
- PLA, an underground rap group from New Zealand now known as the MLA.
- PLA is also a surname from the Catalan region of Spain
- PLA also stands for Project Labor Agreement
- PLA is also the first three letters of Placerville california and the name of its only retailer of high quality skateboarding and snowboarding products. They also have locations in folsom and jackson. www.plaskateboards.com
[edit] Other meanings
PLA may also mean:
- The Playboy Enterprises stock symbol
- An opcode on the MOS Technologies 6502 to pull the accumulator from the stack
- surgeons' jargon for a pelvic lymphadenectomy, a procedure in which lymph nodes are removed
- The ProLife Alliance, a minor political party in the United Kingdom.